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KuCoin Futures

KuCoin Futures historical market data details - instruments, data coverage and data collection specifics

KuCoin Futures historical data for all its instruments is available since 2024-01-25.

See KuCoin Futures historical data coverage: available symbols, channels, date ranges and incidents

Downloadable CSV files

Historical CSV datasets for the first day of each month are available to download without API key. See downloadable CSV files documentation.

data type
symbol
date

incremental_book_L2

XBTUSDTM

2025-01-01

trades

XBTUSDTM

2025-01-01

derivative_ticker

XBTUSDTM

2025-01-01

API Access and data format

Historical data format is the same as provided by real-time KuCoin Futures WebSocket API with addition of local timestamps. If you'd like to work with normalized data format instead (same format for each exchange) see downloadable CSV files or official client libs that can perform data normalization client-side.

Captured real-time channels

See KuCoin Futures WebSocket API docs providing documentation for each captured channel's format

Click any channel below to see HTTP API response with historical data recorded for it.

  • contractMarket/execution Public futures trade executions stream

  • contractMarket/level2 Futures Level 2 order book deltas stream

  • contractMarket/level2Snapshot — generated channel

    Generated futures Level 2 order book snapshots from REST API. Used to bootstrap book state before contractMarket/level2 deltas. Snapshot messages marked as "generated":true on topic /contractMarket/level2Snapshot:<symbol>.

  • contractMarket/tickerV2 Futures ticker updates with mark price and funding fields

  • contract/instrument Instrument status and parameter updates, mark/index up to 1s and funding up to 1m

  • contract/details — generated channel

    Generated contract details snapshots from REST API. Includes open interest and contract state. Snapshot messages marked as "generated":true on topic /contract/details:<symbol>.

  • contractMarket/snapshot Market snapshot stream with index and open interest data

Market data collection details

Market data collection infrastructure for KuCoin Futures is located in GCP asia-northeast1 region (Tokyo, Japan).

Real-time market data is captured via multiple WebSocket connections to wss://ws-api-futures.kucoin.com.

KuCoin Futures servers are located in AWS ap-northeast-1 region (Tokyo, Japan).

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